音标:[pə'trɪʃənɪzəm] ;
n.
(古罗马)贵族的等级(或精神)
高贵;显贵

base, [beis] adj 卑鄙的=vile;私生的 【例】To betray a friend is a base action 出卖朋友是卑鄙的行为。 【根】base本身作为词根:低的,低下的 【类】debase:value=attenuate:force 贬低价值=削弱力量 【反

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Sometimes he almost wanted to say this out loud, interrupt her and just tell her. But this was not one of those times and instead he thought how tired she looked, sad and pale, and when she looked at the floor her chin had started to pouch. Why didnt

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is What's with those people who talk weird? or regionalisms. Language is constantly changing, and a lot of people have asked me about how and why it happens. This isn't my area of expertise, but I've done a lot of rea

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The Greek press is in raptures after the opening ceremony for the Athens Olympics. Many papers splash the event right across their front page, crowning their photos with a single, simple headline. But for a few, the doping controversy which has engul

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文本: But for those chieftains, sensible enough to reach for the olive branch rather than the battle javelin, Claudius had another plan. Give them, or rather their sons, a trip to Rome, and a taste of the dolce vita, and just watch their resistan

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She had money in steel, money in silver-lead-zinc, money in copper and gold, money in a hundred different things, mostly the sort of things that literally and metaphorically made money. Drogheda had long since ceased to be the main source of her inc

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Carthage was still standing, a fact which many Romans would not accept, in particular a patrician named Cato. 迦太基居然还存在,许多罗马人都不能容忍,特别是有一个名叫加图的执政官。 Cato was a just and honorable man,

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Unlike the gentle Indians they didn't willingly submit. 不同于温和的印度人,他们不愿意屈服。 On more than one occasion they threatened to leave the city unless they were treated better and given a share of the fields and pastures wh

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These were the patricians the word means something like 'city fathers' although in those days they weren't citizens as we know them, 这些人是patricians(贵族)这个词的意思大致相当于市议员但是你不可以把这个时代的市议员

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This made him the most celebrated man in Rome. 这样,他就是罗马最受欢迎的人。 But in the meantime, Sulla had fought on in Africa, and he too had returned triumphant. 但是这时苏拉也在非洲继续作战并且同样成了凯旋的统

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To get a job, the students should be long enough on family connections, 为了获得一份工作,学生们应该有广泛的家族关系, long enough on ability or long enough on personality, or a combination of these. 具备各种能力及完善的

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But New Bedford beats all Water Street and Wapping.In these last mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford,actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners;savages outright;many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.It makes

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By Paul Sisco Washington 13 March 2008 The Global Seed Vault openednear the North Pole on 26 February, and an Internet project aimed at promoting biodiversity went on line. The so-called doomsday vault is in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalba

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Color our World with Words 用颜色词把生活天地点缀得五彩缤纷 林丽芳 Claude Monet, the French, cried, Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. Swiss artist Paul Klee wrote, Color possesses me. Monet and Klee werent just philo

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-serpine
1-ethoxyhexane
algogenesia
allergic pollinosis
Amphineura
aqchah (akcha)
awiht
backcrossed
bank-riding
Blankney
card crown
cation-exchanging compounds
cladocerous
coalition builder
coefficient of flexibilty of price
crogan
cycling and circulation degassing process
disturbed differential equation
downcomer barrel
Driewegen
electronic reconnaissances
error interrupt request vector
external communication
Flirsch
flying sounder
Foramen apicis radicis dentis
foregoes
fuel carrier
Ganshu
gipsying
golden cut
groundwater drain
growlings
hard-pumped
hauck
hCDC47
hypomnesis
illiberalising
inish
international cotton advisory committee
jugements
kilo-meter (km)
kittycorners
kupferwismutglanz (emplectite)
Lemli
liquid surface
lokanta
lubrication approximation
malacophylla
manual restoration
microcline twin law
mortisings
mystic jewels
neotraditionalism
nifkin
nonoliguric
obasanjo
operation of push-button switch
overaffects
pattern of enterprises
pelvicellulitis
pilfer
poison pen letter
polypodium amoenum arisanense
posterior column of spinal cord
propulsion mode
proquest
pulse delay time
pyogranulomata
Raleigh International
resurgam
riveted construction
Rosebery Chan.
sallying forth
second preferred
selection of the region
social skill
socio-economic class
solvent evaporation
STRATOPS
suborganellar
sums of squares
tenom
Terrafunginum
the main course
The shoe is on the other foot.
three-quarters hard
tin monoxide
Tioinosine
total emission control
toxopneustes pileolus
train of superior class
true-life
U index
ultra modern
UNEF
unimpressions
vehicular communication
verrelay
vocoders
what is ... on
word-searches